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points by Whitespace 2 days ago | 0 comments

If the difference between M6 and M5 Pro or M5 Max is confusing to you, I strongly recommend you don't look at the names of literally any other CPU, GPU, or chipset that is being manufactured.

[–] swiftcoder 2 days ago

Yeah, but traditionally Apple doesn't pull that weird naming shit. Although I guess the mobile naming scheme has been headed there for a while.

[–] jorvi 2 days ago

All the people under you not understanding that you meant AMD repackaging 2-4 year old CPU cores as """new""" by giving them a current series name and bolting some extra features on.

[–] noosphr 2 days ago

The second iPhone was the 3g the third was the 3gs.

[–] sib 2 days ago

The second one was the first iPhone with 3G networking (which had broadly been considered a required feature for smartphones when the original iPhone was introduced without it.)

I won't try to defend the 3Gs ;)

[–] swiftcoder 1 day ago

At least the N, Ns naming scheme referred to straight-forward (albeit minor) upgrades, and were released a year apart...

[–] Cyph0n 2 days ago

Not to mention X and Xs.

[–] gleenn 2 days ago

And the fact that they skipped 9 and will likely skip iPhone 19 as well

[–] kijin 2 days ago

Microsoft skipped Window 9 too.

Samsung skipped an entire range of numbers from Galaxy S 11 to 19.

Looks like tech companies don't like 9...

[–] tiagod 2 days ago

Supposedly Microsoft skipped 9 because of a lot of hardcoded checks for windows 95 and 98 that checked the first digit

[–] tedd4u 2 days ago

And the iPhone XR! All part of the twelfth-gen models. Of course the subsequent thirteenth-gen models were just called "iPhone 11" in a return to sanity.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

I still don't remember what X vs XR vs XS meant. Of course I can look it up, but that's not the point.

[–] usern20260720 2 days ago

they used to have 1 iphone, now there are 6 models with around 21 exterior versions total

[–] y1n0 2 days ago

And you think 1 is better.

[–] chrisandchris 2 days ago

Not better - but Apple in early days was easy: Choose Air if you don't nedd much. Choose MacBook if you need a little but more and choose Pro if you need max power. That's one of the reasons why I bought an Apple years ago.

Compare that with the regilar lineup of other manufacturers: Cryptic model names which are uncomparable and models that are so similar that they could be equivalent.

So, no, 1 is not better but I don't care (as customer) about variety.

[–] Forgeties79 1 day ago

Well that was sort of the case. You had different years of each model to consider as well, which isn’t all that different from the M/Max/Pro thing we’re discussing here. They didn’t refresh all products the same year.

[–] swiftcoder 1 day ago

> And you think 1 is better.

I think the Apple experience was better when they focused on delivering a single SKU of each product line, yes. Less decisions as to what to buy, greater focus on making that one SKU stand out.

[–] usern20260720 2 days ago

I think it's simpler

[–] y1n0 2 days ago

Are you kidding? When have they not? Apple II, II+, IIc, IIc Plus, IIe (also //e), IIe enhanced, IIGS. All sold concurrently.

They’ve always been this way.

[–] duskwuff 2 days ago

Most of those models were not sold concurrently. The Apple II, II+, and IIe each replaced the previous model; the same was true of the IIc and IIc Plus. "//e" was an alternate textual rendering of IIe, not a separate model.

The most Apple II models that were sold concurrently were the IIe Platinum, IIc Plus, and IIgs. (And this was around 1990, at which point there were far more models of Macintosh computers on the market.)

[–] y1n0 2 days ago

The 2 and 2+ were concurrent.

The 2e, 2e enhanced, 2c, 2c+ and 2gs were concurrent.

I didn’t bother with Mac because I got tired of writing all the things.

[–] efitz 2 days ago

//e was a separate model from the ][+

64kb RAM + 80col card vs 48kb/40col

[–] jonaustin 2 days ago

Bad example, but very true with the Mac under sculley. When Jobs came back that was one of the things he greatly simplified

[–] hoistbypetard 2 days ago

Tell me you're not old enough to remember the Performa and Centris lines without telling me you're not old enough to remember the Performa and Centris lines.

[–] traceroute66 2 days ago

> I strongly recommend you don't look at the names of literally any other CPU, GPU, or chipset that is being manufactured.

And certainly don't look at MikroTik's product naming. ;)